Chapter 247 Can't Go Up! Can't Go Up At All!
If it is normal times, it is still possible to apply for an artillery observer.
This situation today is simply impossible!
Kawashima Kaito retched for a while, and then said: "It was Asano-kun or Nakadai-kun's brain just now."
Kikukawa Yoshinori said indifferently: "They died so miserably!"
When the two of them started talking, they seemed less scared than before.
The two Japanese soldiers finally remembered their business and began to look in the direction of the artillery shells flying towards the artillery position on the gondola.
They are currently not high enough to see the national army artillery positions in the distance.
But you can already see the general direction.
Staff Officer Zhao just saw with his own eyes that Wei Mingyang blew up the Japanese observation balloon with just one shell.
Surprised, he sighed again: "Tuan Zuo! If you had taken action earlier, the 11th Japanese Division would have been driven into the Yangtze River by us."
At this time, he saw the Japanese balloon rising again: "Tuanzuo! The Japanese balloon has risen again."
The last time at the Wusongkou Fort, the Third Regiment of the Japanese Field Artillery also raised two balloons in succession.
Wei Mingyang was also prepared in his mind. He fine-tuned the anti-aircraft gun again and fired another shot.
All they heard here was the thud-thud of cannon fire.
The two Japs, Kaito Kawashima and Yosei Kikukawa, who had just risen into the air, also discovered the artillery position of the national army.
Before he had time to take a good look or find the distance, he saw a stream of light flying towards him.
Obviously he was hitting himself.
The two Japanese soldiers were not afraid of this. With such a long distance, it would be much more difficult for a cannonball to hit them than to penetrate a needle a hundred meters away.
Kawashima Kaito raised the rangefinder and was about to test it.
Suddenly I heard an explosion above my head, like a bolt from the blue.
Then the hanging basket shook and then fell rapidly downwards.
This time, the Japs from Shota Koizumi's team finally saw that the balloon was exploded by a cannonball.
Although they knew the reason, they could only see the hanging basket falling rapidly from the sky.
Sergeant Aoi Dalu secretly rejoiced: "Fortunately, I am inflatable! Otherwise, if it fell like this, even the body would not be recovered."
The second balloon has been popped.
Captain Koizumi Shota had no choice but to report the unfortunate news to Captain Shin Abe again.
Witnessing the explosion of the balloon, Captain Koizumi Shota reported the scene in detail.
He said that the reason why the balloon exploded was not because of my failure to manage it well, but because the Chinese army’s artillery was too powerful.
At this time, Abe's Second Artillery Regiment has been bombed for fifteen minutes.
Gao Hongmin flew the reconnaissance plane three more times from the air.
Every time, I was reminded of the locations of the Japanese artillery positions that had not been bombed.
This will make it easier for the heavy artillery regiment below to be targeted.
Even the driver Gao Hongmin could tell: the Japanese artillery position was finished.
Radio calls were intermittent, but important messages came through.
Luo Zhuoying was inside the headquarters, looking up from time to time at the planes flying in the sky.
Listen to the chief of staff's report.
Staff Zhao reported the calls between heaven and earth in real time.
From these conversations, he had received good news: the Japanese artillery positions had been severely damaged.
Although not all of the cannons have been blown up, at least two-thirds of the cannons have been destroyed.
What are you waiting for now?
Luo Zhuoying ordered: "Convey the order: launch a full-scale counterattack against the Japanese defense lines starting at one o'clock in the afternoon."
At this time, he saw several black spots appearing in the northern sky.
He was too familiar with this thing: airplanes!
Our four planes are flying at high altitude, and the ones coming from the north must be Japanese planes.
He was a little nervous: Wei Mingyang had said that the Japanese plane could come and go without any return.
Just now, he also blew up the Japanese observation balloons one after another, but enemy planes were always a threat when they came over.
Wei Mingyang also saw the Japanese plane and immediately asked Xu Guocai to call: Let the four planes in the sky lead the enemy planes into his shooting range.
Of course Gao Hongmin did not dare to neglect his reconnaissance plane, and now he did not dare to travel east-west.
They only dared to fly in a circle along the center of the circle with the national artillery position below.
The pilots of the other three fighter jets immediately adjusted their flight direction and flew towards the nine Japanese fighter jets.
Wei Mingyang was anxious: The planes were inferior to the Japanese planes, and the disparity in numbers was so huge.
Aren't you seeking death by rushing forward?
Watching the three Nationalist fighter jets, they rushed straight towards the nine Japanese planes.
Tens of thousands of soldiers on the battlefield were excited.
The soldiers of the national army had no hesitation when they saw it, and the Japanese soldiers saw it and shook the tree.
Just when the three planes were about to approach the Japanese fighter jets, they all changed directions.
He turned a corner and accelerated toward the National Army artillery position.
No one is willing to seek death. When he can avoid death, he can fly a plane to fight at a ratio of 3 to 9.
This is not only irresponsible to oneself, but also irresponsible to the country.
The National Army has very few aircraft, so they will certainly not be used like this.
The three planes went from fighting to escaping. Such provocative actions made the Japs in Taro Tanaka's flying squadron extremely angry.
From their point of view, it is acceptable for the national army planes to flee as soon as they see them coming.
Flying in front of someone and then running away is obviously a provocation.
How can you bear it?
Captain Taro Tanaka ordered: "Miki, Yamada, and Nikko, you three pursue the enemy plane on the left;
Bei Feng, the front, pursues the enemy aircraft in the middle with me;
Above, Guanyin and Ito pursue the enemy aircraft on the right.
Whoever destroys the enemy fighter first will attack the reconnaissance aircraft immediately."
"Hai!" All the Japanese in the squadron agreed together.
The nine fighter jets sped up and pursued their respective targets as assigned by the squadron leader.
Seeing the Japanese fighter jets speeding up and rushing into his shooting range, Wei Mingyang did not wait.
"Dong dong dong" started firing.
Captain Shin Abe also saw the planes arriving in the sky, nine planes, such an overwhelming advantage.
Its confidence in the aviation team is 100%.
At this time, it had only one hope: it hoped that these fighter jets, after knocking out four aircraft of the National Army, could attack the National Army's artillery positions on the ground.
After the Japanese planes appeared, the 16th Heavy Artillery Regiment of the National Army immediately stopped bombing.
Wei Mingyang wanted to take a flight at this time and had no time to care about them.
I just felt strange: I hadn’t ordered them to stop bombing yet? Why did they stop?
But he didn't know that the soldiers of the heavy artillery regiment had already begun to flee in panic at this time.
These soldiers had been strafed by Japanese planes and knew how powerful they were, so of course they had to run away.
Zhang Peiqing's face turned green with anger: He was like this before.
However, after the battle at Wusongkou, we already knew the strength of the regiment. These few enemy planes were not enough for the regiment to fight.
His cannon continued to fire, and Zhang Peiqing had ordered his soldiers to intercept the escaping artillery pieces.
Chapter completed!